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Hello everyone,
Yesterday - 2nd June, 2019 - Bo Peep made her first regular appearance at Disney's Hollywood Studios' Toy Story Land in time for the release of Toy Story 4. We were there to welcome her, and so I wanted to share with you some photos of our experience.
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Hello everyone,
Disney Junior's latest star, Nancy Clancy made her Disney Parks debut last week at Disney's Hollywood Studios. I wanted to share with you some photos from our meeting with her.
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Hello everyone,
On May 1st Disney's Hollywood Studios celebrated its 30th anniversary. I thought I would share with you some of my photos from the cavalcade that took place that morning at the park, plus a few extra pics of some of the fun items we picked up that day.
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Hello everyone,
In this new blog series I am going to take a look at some of the meet 'n' greets that you can experience at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
Today I thought it would be fun to start with Mickey and Minnie Mouse at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Their current location is called "Mickey and Minnie Starring in Red Carpet Dreams", which is located on Commissary Lane.
As you proceed down the hallway inside, you can see some fun posters from animated features starring Mickey, Minnie and their friends.
Finally, you get to meet Mickey and Minnie themselves, starting with Minnie Mouse in her dressing room.
And then Mickey, donning his sorcerer robes, on set at The Sorcerer's Apprentice!
Have a great day everyone,
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Hello everyone,
You can currently meet Cruz Ramirez, one of the stars of the new Cars 3 movie, at both Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure. We visited her at both of her new locations recently, and so I thought I'd share some photos with you here.
Enjoy!
Meeting Cruz Ramirez in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure:
Meeting Cruz Ramirez in PIXAR Place at Disney's Hollywood Studios:
Dan. |
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Hello everyone,
Star-Lord and Groot (in his reborn form) recently landed in Disney's Hollywood Studios for an out of this world encounter, so I thought it would be fun to share these photos and video with you all.
Enjoy!
Video:
Photos of the meet 'n' greet entrance and queue:
Meeting Star-Lord and Baby Groot:
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Hello everyone,
Last month, on the 14th April, Disney's Hollywood Studios held its first ever Star Wars Galactic Nights; a premium ticketed event held after park closing.
When Disney first announced Galactic Nights, it was kind of bittersweet. 2015 saw the last ever Star Wars Weekends at the park, which at the time we didn't know would be the final event. Star Wars Weekends were held over four or five consecutive weekends in May and June since 1997. The weekends were insanely popular, and involved many fun character greetings, shows, celebrity appearances, special dining options, special merchandise and much, much more. They were quite simply the ultimate Star Wars fan event. Without warning, Disney announced, after the 2015 event, that they had decided to cancel them, and so anyone who missed 2015 - or had already made plans for 2016 - were left very disappointed, and honestly, as diehard fans we were left bitterly let down and a little stunned.
Disney have tried in the past year to increase the Star Wars presence at Hollywood Studios, including the Star Wars Launch Bay, the March of the First Order, the fireworks spectacular and other small offerings. When Galactic Nights was announced, with the celebrity appearances, cavalcade and special character greetings, it felt like they were trying to give the fans a little bit of Star Wars Weekends back, if only for one night, and at a high premium.
With all that in mind, I was a little skeptical, honestly. How could one night live up to the all-day activities that lasted for four weeks per year? And how could we possibly get everything done in one night? I imagined it being a little frustrating, and actually anticipated complaining to guest relations at the end of the night, based on our recent experiences at Disney events. I don't deliberately go into these things wanting or intending to complain, but I think I was so jaded by the loss of Star Wars Weekends, and now having to pay a lot of money to just even get a slither of that back for one night, that I just expected to dislike it.
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Hello everyone,
As Jon and I spend an increasing amount of time at the Walt Disney World Resort theme parks, I find it correspondingly redundant to post "trip reports", in the more traditional sense. You may have noticed that, for example, recently I posted a stand alone review of the Garden Grill, a report on meeting the stars of Cars 3, and my report on the DVC Moonlight Magic event here on Character Central, and over on Two Lost Boys, my review of Flower and Garden 2017 at Epcot. I thought that it would be nice to share the more "generic" things we saw, too, over the past two months, and so decided to make this report more of a round-up of multiple visits, rather than breaking it down into separate trip reports. We will actually be back at the parks again this week and next, and so you should expect to see a similar round-up and more specialised individual reports once I get around to doing them, too.
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Hello everyone,
This week has been a particularly good week for character news, with lots coming out of Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disney Resort and Disneyland Paris.
Let's start with Tokyo Disney Resort, where last night they announced a brand new character to join Duffy and friends at Tokyo DisneySea - a bunny named StellaLou. [ Read More... ] |
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Hello everyone,
In this second part of my Walt Disney World December trip report I am going to share you with your our adventures at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Epcot. In case you missed it, the first part of my report, which covers Disney's Animal Kingdom and the Disney resort hotels, can be found here.
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